Wednesday, July 30, 2008

My New Hobby

This is my newest hobby.

Whenever one of my apps crashes, OS X pops up with a little message window asking if I’d like to report the incident to Apple. Details and the like which could help the engineers fix problems in their apps. Being the helpful fellow that I am, I usually press “Okey-Dokey” and send the report to Apple.

These are the kind of Crash Reports I’ve started to send to the Mothership. In this case an Apple app called Server Admin that I use, oddly enough, to administer our server (who’da thunk?) had crashed:

Server Admin is a like a petulant toddler who refuses to sleep well.

It crashes hard *every* time my machine takes a nap. Upon awakening my computer, Server Admin will have kicked up its little feet and keeled over and unceremoniously died and become completely unresponsive. Sometimes I can’t even start the app back up and have to resort to rebooting my machine.

Now I am all sad inside and want to start drinking heavily.

Again.

And I can’t put my family through that again.

Last time this happened, my family and friends staged an intervention and they all gathered around and explained that they loved me and were here for me, but that I had to change. And then they put me on a bus to Tuscon.

And I’ve tried, really, I’ve tried.

But seriously, every time Server Admin crashes, I feel myself slipping back into that dark place and I begin to reach for the demon gin bottle.

So fix this, will ya?

Thanks!

xoxoxo,
jon

Should help, no?

1. Oh Hell Yeah!...that should help!
   Can I steal, and send this to my obnoxious OS and server?

   kthxbai.

   jw

   Posted by J.W.  on  07/30/08  at  04:49 PM

2. I’ve never actually met someone who filled out and sent those reports in. I’ve always assumed everyone deletes them the way they hang up on telemarketers.  Huh.

   Posted by rimarama  on  07/30/08  at  05:40 PM

3. John Mayer did something like this he posted on his blog.  I’m too lazy to look it up.  I find it quite entertaining.

   Posted by amy  on  07/30/08  at  07:19 PM

4. Ha! That should encourage them to get a move on.  I think I’ll have to try this out the next time (without fail) my computer decides to hate me.

   Posted by Lizzy  on  07/30/08  at  07:24 PM

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